Mercer Ready to Take on Georgia Tech

MACON, Ga. – The Mercer baseball program (26-15, 8-4 SoCon) will play its final road midweek game of the season against Georgia Tech (22-18, 8-13 ACC) on Tuesday, April 25 at 6 p.m. at Russ Chandler Stadium in Atlanta.

TUESDAY, April 25 | 6 p.m.
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Georgia Tech leads the all-time series with Mercer, 72-26, but the Bears have recorded a few highlight wins over the Yellow Jackets. In 2011, Mercer beat Georgia Tech in both meetings while the Yellow Jackets were ranked No. 5 and No. 9 at the time. The Bears posted wins against 12^th-ranked Georgia Tech in 2013 and 23^rd-ranked Tech in 2014. Most recently, Mercer took down No. 13 Georgia Tech in 2022.

SCOUTING GEORGIA TECH
Georgia Tech opened the season with nine-straight wins but has since lost more than won. Over the weekend, the Yellow Jackets traveled to Miami where the Hurricanes took the series, 2-1.

The Yellow Jackets boast the 15^th-best batting average in the country at .317 off of the fourth-most hits at 461. Georgia Tech has also hit the seventh-most doubles of any school in the country this season with 101. Like the Bears, Georgia Tech has had great success with double plays this season, turning 41, which ranks third in the nation.

RECENT ACTION
The Bears are returning to the state of Georgia after an exciting 2-1 series win over VMI after scoring a total of 44 runs. Carter Sanford was named SoCon Player of the Week due to his performance including four home runs in four games while notching eight runs and nine RBI with a .667 batting average.

Ty Dalley hit his 13^th home run of the season to take the lead in the Southern Conference. Eric Toth is tied for second in the conference in home runs with 12.

Mercer is 3-1 this season when playing on Tuesday with the most recent Tuesday game occurring on April 4 against FAMU in which the Bears won 19-7. The other Tuesday wins came against Georgia State and FAMU.

IN THE NUMBERS

Trevor Austin ranks seventh in Division I among active players for games played (221) and 26th for hits (226).
Mercer is 13th in Division I for fielding percentage at .980. Only 20 schools are fielding .980 or above.
The Bears have turned 36 double plays this season which ranks 16th in Division I.
Mercer ranks 17th in Division I in home runs with 71 this season.
Treyson Hughes ranks 17th in Division I and first in the SoCon for runs scored with 52.
Wes Franklin ranks ninth in Division I and first in the SoCon for saves with eight this season.

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Players Mentioned

Trevor Austin

Ty Dalley

Treyson Hughes

Carter Sanford

Eric Toth

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